http://jalopnik.com/5577692/land-rover-evoque-is-the-new-lrx
And you thought it was all over when the current generation Range Rover came out.
And you thought it was all over when the current generation Range Rover came out.
Really? WTF?
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I like the look, but it just does not look like a LR to me. There are tons of newer Range Rovers here in Charlottesville that never leave the pavement. I think the RR has come to mean wealth and status, not capability. I still long for a Land Rover along the lines of the Jeep Rubicon, a Defender for the US but I doubt that will ever happen.
Re: the new Evoque/Evoke/What The Fuck Ever
People have been saying that LR is on the skids for years.
First it was the 1970 Range Rover with (gasp!) coil springs. Then the 90 and the 110 to replace the Series 3. The late 80's brought the Disco. The Freelander left its mark on the 90's woe-be-unto-us crowd. IFS/IRS on the L322/RRS/LR3 and 4 seems to work ok offroad, even if it is not quite as robust as solid axles.
All of those events were said to have been to death knell for the 'real' Land Rover. In truth they have all made their positive mark in one way or another. Even the Freelander, which sells in Europe like ice cream at a convention for fat kids.
But I don't know about a 2wd Rangie with an interior designed by Posh Spice. The only benefit that I see is generating revenue for the company and getting more asses into LR seats.
At what price, though? We already have enough douchebag Ed Hardy wearing assholes in LRs as it is. That along with the bitch heiress demographic has sold trucks, but do the marketing cats in Solihull have any idea what Land Rover really is? Besides a conveyance for rappers and dentists?
I don't know.
People have been saying that LR is on the skids for years.
First it was the 1970 Range Rover with (gasp!) coil springs. Then the 90 and the 110 to replace the Series 3. The late 80's brought the Disco. The Freelander left its mark on the 90's woe-be-unto-us crowd. IFS/IRS on the L322/RRS/LR3 and 4 seems to work ok offroad, even if it is not quite as robust as solid axles.
All of those events were said to have been to death knell for the 'real' Land Rover. In truth they have all made their positive mark in one way or another. Even the Freelander, which sells in Europe like ice cream at a convention for fat kids.
But I don't know about a 2wd Rangie with an interior designed by Posh Spice. The only benefit that I see is generating revenue for the company and getting more asses into LR seats.
At what price, though? We already have enough douchebag Ed Hardy wearing assholes in LRs as it is. That along with the bitch heiress demographic has sold trucks, but do the marketing cats in Solihull have any idea what Land Rover really is? Besides a conveyance for rappers and dentists?
I don't know.
I keep telling myself the next Rover I'll buy might be an LR3...I hope to keep my D2 for a very long time.
LR looks to be targeting the upper class owners that 99% of the time will never take their vehicle off road...
Every time I go to the dealer, the sticker price on the vehicles just shock me. $58K for an LR4? Jesus...and I see new RR sitting on aftermarket 22' wheels...lol
LR looks to be targeting the upper class owners that 99% of the time will never take their vehicle off road...
Every time I go to the dealer, the sticker price on the vehicles just shock me. $58K for an LR4? Jesus...and I see new RR sitting on aftermarket 22' wheels...lol
The dealer in Vegas always has a rr in the showroom on some huge ass rims with full chrome packages etc....always over 100k makes me chuckle.
Obviously LR has totally lost it's roots in the past 10 years. It is slowly happening to the Jeep brand too if you notice all the weird little "Jeep" models that have come out recently. If the Wrangler ever goes out or goes soccer Mommy SUV for the most part then you know there is little future for truck based off roading unless one is buying up the remaining older models of any brand and keeping them going into infinity or total rust out. The massive numbers of ATV'ers that are off roading now is the off roading future i'm sorry to say. The ATV's are much cheaper to buy new and maintain then truck bases SUV's. People that once would have bought a truck base SUV such as LR or Jeep now buy ATV's. One can buy ATV's for your whole family for the cost of one new truck SUV. Sad but true.
Big Papa said:
The sticker price on my DI in 1998 was 43k ish IIRC.
I bought mine from a dentist...for 1/6th that price. In ten years, we'll all be wheeling LR3's and LR4's and MKIII's and bitching about the newest "freeloader". That's the cycle of life.